Anyone out there Folding@Home?

Wildkow · 10-13-2006, 07:34 PM

I don't know if many people have even heard of this but it is one of my small contributions to science and a bit of fun to watch as your "numbers" go up and your standing increases. And that is "Folding@Home" Stanford U is trying to understand how to "fold proteins" so that they will gain a better understand of DNA. Folding@home - Main if your puter runs for a proportion of the time or even if it doesn't we should start a "Prius" or "Hybrid" team and fold proteins to not only benefit science but also the people that could be helped from a break through in this field, which is just about everyone BTW. The program runs in the background all the time but it's priority is set to operate only when idle so that when any other program requires CPU time, that other program is given priority. I have had absolutely no troubles running this program and I have been folding proteins from the very beginning and I am closing in on 1500th place out of a field of 68407 different teams. I have about 9 or ten active folders or computers on my team "Wildkow" #304. With the community we have here we could give a big boost to this effort and be a part of this science. What say you? PM me if you would like to start a "Prius" or "Hybrid" team. Just my own puny team has surpassed some colleges and even universities. I am closing in on the University of Georgia as I type this. Think of what an entire community can do!

I posted this at POL also but I think I will make a poll out of this and if we get enough volunteers I will see if I can change my team name to whatever we decide to call this team and we can start in 1500 place instead of crawling up through all ranks. I'll bet it takes us no time to get to 100th place or better if we get enough volunteers and then we will have one more thing to be inordinately Smug about! Pffffffffftttt. . . sniff, sniff, ahhhhh.

:P

Wildkow

p.s. Ok most of the above is immaterial now because I am now on the Priuschat team, read the posts for the story, and now I am in fourth place for our team and having a bit of fun, contributing to a worthy cause and getting a warm fuzzy to boot. :P

What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery.

Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals.

Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.

Our team stats and list of over 75 members who have Folded for team Priuschat:

Kakao Stats - Team Members - Priuschat

Priuschat - Team Summary - EXTREME Overclocking Folding @ Home Stats

Folding@Home

Instructions to follow . . .

Console version, non-intrusive stays in the background and you'll never know its there. . .

Note: Please read the license agreement (fah504-console -license). Further
use of this software requires that you have read and accepted this agreement.

Folding@Home User Configuration

No directory settings found in registry. Using current directory... [Make sure you put this into a folder of your own choosing]

--- Opening Log file [current date here]

# Windows Console Edition ################################################## ###

Folding@Home Client Version X.XX [beta]
Folding@home - Main

################################################## #############################

Launch directory:
Executable: fah504-console

[10:32:11] Configuring Folding@Home...

User name [Anonymous] Use your Priuschat user name here or whatever
Team Number [0] 52533
Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a service (yes/no) [no]? YES

The program will ocntinue in non-service mode now, working in [your folder/directory here]. The next time the computer is starts up, you should see work automatically continue there. Note that when this sercice is running, you should not try to manually run F@H from that directory at the same time

Ask before fetching/sending work (no/yes) [no]? NO
Use Internet Explorer Settings (no/yes) [no]? NO unless you have dialup or otherwise need it, ask if you don’t know.
Use proxy (yes/no) [no]? NO maybe needed on work or school machines, once again ask if you don’t know.
Allow receipt of work assignments and return of work results greater than 5MB in size (such work units may have large memory demands) (no/yes) [no]? YES
Change advanced options (yes/no) [no]? NO, unless you have a multi-core machine once again ask for help.

Viola your done!

If you decide to use the Graphical client, it has a cool screen saver, the install of that is even easier! Just use the input above to answer setup questions.

Got questions? Fire away we gots answers.

:P

galaxee · 10-13-2006, 10:05 PM

hey cool!

bigdaddy · 10-14-2006, 08:53 AM

Ya know, many years ago I used to run the Google Toolbar, and within the toolbar there was an option called "Google Compute" that allowed your machine to become part of distributed computing efforts when your browser was open. I had all of my machines set up to donate cycles to the Folding@Home project. Now that you mention this project, I now notice that this option does not exist anymore on my machines nor is is available from Google.... Wonder what happened.

Sign me up for a PC group. I've 4 machines running and available to help out on a 24x7 basis, and another laptop that is available whenever it is on and near a network.

dreichla · 10-14-2006, 10:54 AM

I've been doing distributed computing through Berkeley in a program called BOINC for several years now.

I subscribe to several projects through the BOINC interface - including BBC Climate Change Experiment, Climate prediction.net, Einstein@Home (searching for spinning neutron star?), Seti@Home(where's ET?), Rosetta@home (protein analysis), and Predictor@home (more protein analysis)

Distributed computing is a great thing and I would encourage it for all who have a lot of unused computing time with idle computers.

Wildkow · 10-16-2006, 03:58 PM

** BUMP **

Maybe this will inspire a few more. . .

http://www.hel-razor.com/FoldingForOurFuture.html

http://www.teamshort-media.com/videos/foldflash2.html

bigdaddy · 10-16-2006, 06:23 PM

I just set up 2 of my machines, donating anonymously at the moment. Give me a priuschat team number and I'll configure appropriately....

DocVijay · 10-16-2006, 08:43 PM

I'm on the Maximum PC magazine team.

Once the PS3 comes out, I'll have another machine running it. Sony worked out a deal with the guy at Stanford, and there will be a folding@home client for the PS3. There's a lot of power in those boxes, and if a good number of PS3 owners run it, it's good for everyone.

Wildkow · 10-17-2006, 02:08 PM

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I just set up 2 of my machines, donating anonymously at the moment. Give me a priuschat team number and I'll configure appropriately....
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I need some input into what the name should be. I yhought I could just change the name of my team "Wildkow" to the new name, presently in 1540, place with 200,000+ points but I don't see or can't figure out a way to do that.

Wildkow

bigdaddy · 10-17-2006, 02:25 PM

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I need some input into what the name should be. I yhought I could just change the name of my team "Wildkow" to the new name, presently in 1540, place with 200,000+ points but I don't see or can't figure out a way to do that.

Wildkow
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How about PriusChat.com or Team Prius or Hybrid Hackers, etc...

Looks like you can edit team info here if you want to change your name. http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/changeteam.pl

However, I'd recommend you starting a new team, just in case you want to fire the lot of us one day when you buy that hummer or insight or something else and switch over to Xchat.com. That way, you'd get to keep your points without having us usurp them.

Speaking of Hybrids, looks like the project has a beta that capitalizes on ATI graphics processing units as well as CPUs. Looks like a roughly 50x increase (SWAG) in performance over CPU-only solutions. That'd be the way to really boost our scores....

Wildkow · 10-18-2006, 01:08 AM

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Quote:

How about PriusChat.com or Team Prius or Hybrid Hackers, etc...

Looks like you can edit team info here if you want to change your name. http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/changeteam.pl

However, I'd recommend you starting a new team, just in case you want to fire the lot of us one day when you buy that hummer or insight or something else and switch over to Xchat.com. That way, you'd get to keep your points without having us usurp them.

Speaking of Hybrids, looks like the project has a beta that capitalizes on ATI graphics processing units as well as CPUs. Looks like a roughly 50x increase (SWAG) in performance over CPU-only solutions. That'd be the way to really boost our scores....
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OK how about HybridFolders or some other play on that line. The reason I haven't just used prisuchat in the name is because I am trying to spark some interest over on PriusOnLine and maybe form a joint folding team. But instead of joint cooperation maybe I should be more confrontational and spark some competition? After all I am rather good at that. :P It all goes to F@H and finding a cure for some truly horrible diseases.

Thanks for that change name link, the trouble is that I don’t think the points go with you and that would defeat the whole purpose.

Wildkow

p.s. I also have to check with Danny as to any objections with using the PriusChat name.

View Poll Results: Would you like to help the cause of science and find cures to horrible diseases?
Yes	72	90.00%
No	8	10.00%
Voters: 80. You may not vote on this poll

10-13-2006, 07:34 PM	#1
Wildkow Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,860 My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #8 Nominated 4 Times in 1 Post TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 11	I don't know if many people have even heard of this but it is one of my small contributions to science and a bit of fun to watch as your "numbers" go up and your standing increases. And that is "Folding@Home" Stanford U is trying to understand how to "fold proteins" so that they will gain a better understand of DNA. Folding@home - Main if your puter runs for a proportion of the time or even if it doesn't we should start a "Prius" or "Hybrid" team and fold proteins to not only benefit science but also the people that could be helped from a break through in this field, which is just about everyone BTW. The program runs in the background all the time but it's priority is set to operate only when idle so that when any other program requires CPU time, that other program is given priority. I have had absolutely no troubles running this program and I have been folding proteins from the very beginning and I am closing in on 1500th place out of a field of 68407 different teams. I have about 9 or ten active folders or computers on my team "Wildkow" #304. With the community we have here we could give a big boost to this effort and be a part of this science. What say you? PM me if you would like to start a "Prius" or "Hybrid" team. Just my own puny team has surpassed some colleges and even universities. I am closing in on the University of Georgia as I type this. Think of what an entire community can do! I posted this at POL also but I think I will make a poll out of this and if we get enough volunteers I will see if I can change my team name to whatever we decide to call this team and we can start in 1500 place instead of crawling up through all ranks. I'll bet it takes us no time to get to 100th place or better if we get enough volunteers and then we will have one more thing to be inordinately Smug about! Pffffffffftttt. . . sniff, sniff, ahhhhh. :P Wildkow p.s. Ok most of the above is immaterial now because I am now on the Priuschat team, read the posts for the story, and now I am in fourth place for our team and having a bit of fun, contributing to a worthy cause and getting a warm fuzzy to boot. :P What is protein folding and how is folding linked to disease? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery. Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes. You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our goals. Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than previously achieved. Our team stats and list of over 75 members who have Folded for team Priuschat: Kakao Stats - Team Members - Priuschat Priuschat - Team Summary - EXTREME Overclocking Folding @ Home Stats Folding@Home Instructions to follow . . . Console version, non-intrusive stays in the background and you'll never know its there. . . Note: Please read the license agreement (fah504-console -license). Further use of this software requires that you have read and accepted this agreement. Folding@Home User Configuration No directory settings found in registry. Using current directory... [Make sure you put this into a folder of your own choosing] --- Opening Log file [current date here] # Windows Console Edition ################################################## ### Folding@Home Client Version X.XX [beta] Folding@home - Main ################################################## ############################# Launch directory: Executable: fah504-console [10:32:11] Configuring Folding@Home... User name [Anonymous] Use your Priuschat user name here or whatever Team Number [0] 52533 Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a service (yes/no) [no]? YES The program will ocntinue in non-service mode now, working in [your folder/directory here]. The next time the computer is starts up, you should see work automatically continue there. Note that when this sercice is running, you should not try to manually run F@H from that directory at the same time Ask before fetching/sending work (no/yes) [no]? NO Use Internet Explorer Settings (no/yes) [no]? NO unless you have dialup or otherwise need it, ask if you don’t know. Use proxy (yes/no) [no]? NO maybe needed on work or school machines, once again ask if you don’t know. Allow receipt of work assignments and return of work results greater than 5MB in size (such work units may have large memory demands) (no/yes) [no]? YES Change advanced options (yes/no) [no]? NO, unless you have a multi-core machine once again ask for help. Viola your done! If you decide to use the Graphical client, it has a cool screen saver, the install of that is even easier! Just use the input above to answer setup questions. Got questions? Fire away we gots answers. :P Last edited by Wildkow; 06-05-2008 at 03:44 AM.

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10-13-2006, 10:05 PM	#2
galaxee running WOT until out of fuel Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: central NC/ western WI Posts: 9,075 My Car: 2005 Prius Package: #5 Nominated 5 Times in 3 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 21	hey cool!

10-14-2006, 08:53 AM	#3
bigdaddy Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Duluth Georgia Posts: 992 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	Ya know, many years ago I used to run the Google Toolbar, and within the toolbar there was an option called "Google Compute" that allowed your machine to become part of distributed computing efforts when your browser was open. I had all of my machines set up to donate cycles to the Folding@Home project. Now that you mention this project, I now notice that this option does not exist anymore on my machines nor is is available from Google.... Wonder what happened. Sign me up for a PC group. I've 4 machines running and available to help out on a 24x7 basis, and another laptop that is available whenever it is on and near a network. __________________ Seaside Pearl '05, Package #6, tinted windows, leather seats, dual DVDs for the princesses.

10-14-2006, 10:54 AM	#4
dreichla Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,230 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	I've been doing distributed computing through Berkeley in a program called BOINC for several years now. I subscribe to several projects through the BOINC interface - including BBC Climate Change Experiment, Climate prediction.net, Einstein@Home (searching for spinning neutron star?), Seti@Home(where's ET?), Rosetta@home (protein analysis), and Predictor@home (more protein analysis) Distributed computing is a great thing and I would encourage it for all who have a lot of unused computing time with idle computers.

10-16-2006, 03:58 PM	#5
Wildkow Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,860 My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #8 Nominated 4 Times in 1 Post TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 11	BUMP Maybe this will inspire a few more. . . http://www.hel-razor.com/FoldingForOurFuture.html http://www.teamshort-media.com/videos/foldflash2.html

10-16-2006, 06:23 PM	#6
bigdaddy Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Duluth Georgia Posts: 992 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	I just set up 2 of my machines, donating anonymously at the moment. Give me a priuschat team number and I'll configure appropriately....

10-16-2006, 08:43 PM	#7
DocVijay Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 1,455 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 1	I'm on the Maximum PC magazine team. Once the PS3 comes out, I'll have another machine running it. Sony worked out a deal with the guy at Stanford, and there will be a folding@home client for the PS3. There's a lot of power in those boxes, and if a good number of PS3 owners run it, it's good for everyone.